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New Ubuntu and Canonical sites
By Alejandra Obregon, 26 May 2010
The new Ubuntu and Canonical sites went live today. As well as the visual refresh to include the new brand, the objective was to bring the sites up-to-date...
The challenge of understanding icons
By Canonical, 26 May 2010
Icons are very peculiar images. They are both pictorial and functional. An icon is literally a picture, e.g., of a magnifying glass, and at the same time it...
Talk Type
By Marcus Haslam, 20 May 2010
At the recent Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS), we invited Type Designer Bruno Maag from Dalton Maag to talk about the new open-source font design development...
A unified menu bar for Ubuntu Netbook Edition
By Matthew Paul Thomas, 6 May 2010
Using a single menu bar at the top of the screen, instead of separate menu bars inside each window, seems like a pretty simple change. But it’s more complex...
When it comes to social networking what are you? Door, Mirror, Room?
By Canonical, 27 April 2010
Everyone belongs to one, two or more social networking sites. At Canonical, we wondered “What does social networking mean to people?” I set off to find out. ...
Refining the battery status menu
By Matthew Paul Thomas, 23 April 2010
As part of the notification area transition, we’re adapting the Gnome Power Manager item to be a system status menu. We’re interested in your feedback on the...
Farewell to the notification area
By Matthew Paul Thomas, 21 April 2010
Ubuntu is phasing out the traditional Gnome notification area, because of its ineffectiveness at notifying people of things, and its inconsistent behavior....
My image of the day
By Canonical, 14 April 2010
An example of Gemma Correll’s work.